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Re:Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself by diminish on Thursday March 21, 2013 @02:12AM (#5413262)
The turnoff switch for Reader is an inflection point for Google towards Microsoftization; where they new product launches will be skeptically seen by hackers, and geeks.

I went to my phone, and did a Google spring cleanup yesterday, by deleting all the stuff I didn't use, and thought Google would see a future;

That is good for startups, they may attack Google product segments with ease, and we shall all PR for them and enjoy using them.

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Re:Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself by nnnnni on Thursday March 21, 2013 @07:02AM (#5414212)
No, the de-standardizing of Google Calendar is Microsoftization.

1. Release something that's compatible with another popular thing. 2. Build up a huge following. 3. Remove the compatibility. 4. ??? 5. Profit!

It's the same thing that happened with NT and OS/2 compatibility. I'm not sure if Excel can still deal with Lotus files, but Excel got popular because of its Lotus compatibility.

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Re:Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself by charlieok on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:21PM (#5416252)
And in fact, Google did this most specifically to Microsoft.

http://www.zdnet.com/google-drops-exchange-activesync-suppor...

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